Idea: Various people on LW say in their user profile something like “I enjoy talking to random people. Book a time on my calendar!” It’d be cool to compile a list of such opportunities. This can also be done for other online communities like Hacker News.
I’ll note that a lot of people either don’t say random or don’t mean it. I really like talking to people who are interested enough in topics I write about to click through, like the post enough to hunt around my website to find the contact info, and reach out from that. I think my success rate for arbitrary people, or even arbitrary people who use LW, would be much lower and I wouldn’t want to participate in that.
Oh that’s a really good point. Unintended consequences. I suspect a good amount of people feel similarly. Still, I’m moderately confident that enough people would be interested such that this would still be a good idea.
I certainly don’t object to anyone making an opt-in directory, only to including people in a directory when they haven’t okayed it (even if the information is public elsewhere).
Idea: Various people on LW say in their user profile something like “I enjoy talking to random people. Book a time on my calendar!” It’d be cool to compile a list of such opportunities. This can also be done for other online communities like Hacker News.
I’ll note that a lot of people either don’t say random or don’t mean it. I really like talking to people who are interested enough in topics I write about to click through, like the post enough to hunt around my website to find the contact info, and reach out from that. I think my success rate for arbitrary people, or even arbitrary people who use LW, would be much lower and I wouldn’t want to participate in that.
Oh that’s a really good point. Unintended consequences. I suspect a good amount of people feel similarly. Still, I’m moderately confident that enough people would be interested such that this would still be a good idea.
I certainly don’t object to anyone making an opt-in directory, only to including people in a directory when they haven’t okayed it (even if the information is public elsewhere).
That makes sense. Opt-in does seem like the way to go.